![]() ![]() There also was a Shaku written with a different Kanji - 勺 – used for land pricing and Saké units. There are two types of Shaku 尺: the “standard” Kanejaku 曲尺 (10/33 meters = 11.93 inches), and the Kujirajaku 鯨尺 (25/66 meters = 14.9 inches) used only for measuring clothes. In 1891 the government merely defined the metric equivalences in 1924 it was replaced by the metric system. The Shakkanhō 尺貫法 (traditional Chinese measurement system ) was already “standardized” early on, and firmly in place during the Edo period. PS it looks like your set is original and that sir is pretty rare, size not being everything So while your blade may have been a katate-uchigatana when made the longer handle suggests two handed use as you point out.Ĥ.Katate-uchigatana not only had the short nakago but also had shorter handles, any sword though can be used for a katate-uchi strike.Īlso I hope someone will tell the SFI folks that "Katte-uchi" sounds like mumbling and not a contraction of Katate - not a commonly used one anyway. Length is not the only criteria though.ģ.Dai-sho are more an Edo period thing. Therefore you need to learn to recognize length and blade geometry as indicators of how it might have been used if there is only shirasaya. You can see yari mounted as katana and other examples of things like this. A tanto could be put into wakizashi mounts then it would be a wakizashi until you were looking at the blade alone. a mumei blade say 26-28 inches and not of great age would be called a katana for lack of other evidence. Thus shorter katana like yours are not so uncommon.Ģ.the koshirae often makes the sword a mumei blade in original tachi mounts would be referred to as a tachi. Though we cannot see the kojiri on the longer of the two swords it seems pretty obvious that this is the Dai for your Dai-sho and is a Katana, whatever the length.ġ.most folks were not that tall and their hands were only so big. ![]()
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